Gay Talese (; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.Gay Talese was born into a Catholic Italian-American family in Ocean City, New Jersey, south of Atlantic City. His father, Joseph Talese, was a tailor who had emigrated to the United States during 1922 from Maida, a town in the region of Calabria in southern Italy. His mother, the former Catherine DePaolo, was a buyer for a Brooklyn department store (he is sometimes erroneously identified as being from Brooklyn). Wikipedia
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